Some representatives of the LGBT world in the music industry, such as the author Samy Nemir, lamented the Twitter loss and highlighted the figure of Fret.

"Kevin Fret was known not only for his musical style, but also for his image, which broke gender norms in #PuertoRico and stigmatized being gay, unhappy with gender and expressions of gender identity freely – in a country where gays still dishes, scares and killing ", says the tweet.

The latest video of the rapper, Soy Así, has over half a million views on YouTube.

"I am a person to whom He doesn't care what people have to say"He told Paper Online Magazine last year.

"(Now I see) young gay or young lesbians that I came as a model to imitate, as wowIf he did, and he doesn't care what someone has to say, I can do it too. "

Puerto Rico has suffered a increase in street crime In recent weeks, the island's police have described it as a "crisis of violence".

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